TCPS Teacher Brings the Wonders of Physics to Young Readers

I want kids to understand that physics is not just about math and numbers, it’s about wonder, astonishment, and understanding that things that might seem like magic, can be explained with physics.

I was inspired by a children’s book I discovered in teacher’s college called “Something from Nothing”, as it had two stories going on at the same time, one on the main page, and one in the bottom margin where the page number is, that would weave into each other from time to time. I wanted to write a book with that double-story idea, but something that could actually happen and that was related to physics and astronomy. I didn’t want to write about a ten year old boy tinkering away in his garage building a time machine, because that would not be able to happen in real life. My story works in every physics way, could theoretically happen today or tomorrow and is scientifically accurate. The science is explored at the end of the story.

My goal is to write a series of books where the story would continue from one book to the next, and in each, they would explore another “physics of the impossible” idea. 

In my first book, I explore a physics concept called time dilation. The book titled Alice and Bob is about a brother and sister, who find an abandoned spaceship and travel to outer space to find extraterrestrial life for themselves. The spaceship they use is from an alien who was heading for Mercury but had to eject himself from the spaceship in a smaller ship while it’s on a collision course with Earth. There are little problems that the main characters encounter along the way; however, the biggest one is that when Bob returns to Earth it has become a futuristic world…even his sister is 50 years older. Together, the brother and sister figure out why time for each of them did not pass at the same rate and how to go back to the way things were.

Julia Ahadie,
Teacher and Author

To order a copy, please contact Julia at limitlessphysics@gmail.com or visit blurb.ca